If you're using one of the most common apps to manage text chats on an Android phone, you'll see a small blue dot appear next to certain conversations. In other cases, a different symbol, such as a ...

Blue text bubbles on Android are from Google's Custom Bubbles feature, which let users change the color of message bubbles in ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

A group of app developers are working on ways to bridge the blue/green divide. NEW YORK -- If you send a text from an iPhone to another iPhone, most of the time that text is blue. If you send a text ...

Google’s Material You is a few years old at this point, but the company is apparently still working to improve it in upcoming Android releases with a new way of accessing “Color contrast” options.

Social media has trained us to indicate approval with emojis. A like might be as good as a response in some circumstances on messaging apps like WhatsApp, but can you do the same with simple text ...